Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Released today from author Patrick Rutigliano and Crystal Lake Publishing, The Neonate and Other Anomalies
In the haunting novella The Neonate, Nate Gajac is given a second chance at life.
While serving a prison sentence, a mysterious stranger offers him an impossible bargain: a job, a cure for his sister’s illness, and a home in an isolated, idyllic community. The price is simple.
Clean up after the creatures that live there.
For years, Nate has done exactly that, bound by fear and the knowledge that some monsters are better left undisturbed. But now something new has arrived—a predator that doesn’t belong. It hunts the town’s monstrous inhabitants as prey, and as a brutal war erupts between horrors beyond human understanding, Nate must decide which nightmare deserves to survive.
The Neonate: And Other Anomalies also features a collection of dark tales filled with cosmic dread, Lovecraftian horror, creature horror, and unforgettable nightmares. Perfect for readers who enjoy small-town horror, weird fiction, and horror stories where the unknown is far more terrifying than the monsters themselves. Available today in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
Arriving 5 November from editors Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey and Saga Press, Silent Nightmares: Haunting Stories to Be Told on the Longest Night of the Year
Great writers of centuries past like Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, and Bram Stoker understood that darkness is always hiding amid the holiday cold and cheer, revealing sinister secrets. That in the stillness of winter, when the world is wrapped in a blanket of snow, the festive spirit masks the lurking horrors that dwell beneath the surface.
From haunted halls to malevolent delights, from vengeful spirits of the past to creatures lurking in the shadows, expect to encounter beings that celebrate the season in frightful ways in this Victorian-inspired horror anthology.
Join Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Bailey, Josh Malerman, Joe R. Lansdale, Alma Katsu, Ramsey Campbell, Cynthia Pelayo, Gabino Iglesias, and more for stories that promise nostalgia and dread, reminding us that sometimes the most silent nights can be the deadliest. Available for pre-order now in hardcover, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Coming 28 August from author Jeffrey J. Mariotte and Crystal Lake Publishing, Flesh of All Sorrows
Daniel Mansfield Jr. has spent his life in the shadow of a legend. His father—the celebrated police chief who ended the reign of The Bookbinder, a serial killer who used the flesh of his victims to bind his books—left Daniel a name to live up to and a department to inherit. Now Daniel sits in that same chair, in that same town of Sossaman, Arizona, carrying that same weight.
Then a young woman turns up dead bearing The Bookbinder’s unmistakable signature.
The problem is Brian Quintana, the man Daniel’s father arrested, has been behind bars for nearly forty years. Which means either an imitator is at work, or Daniel’s father put the wrong man away.
As clues pile up and another victim disappears, Daniel must confront the most dangerous question of his career: what if the legacy he has dedicated his life to protecting was built on a lie? Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can pick up your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON
